NEWTOWN -- First Selectman Pat Llodra is proposing a 1.9 percent spending increase for the town's 2013-14 operating budget, with increases primarily related to wage and salary benefit adjustments and some equipment improvements.

What the proposal does not now include is additional police and school security measures that are under review by a combined school and police safety committee, which has yet to provide cost projections.

"I have communicated numerous times what I am looking for as the chief executive is a full document with personnel and costs," Llodra said Tuesday.

Any proposals by the committee were not prepared in time for her presentation of a budget, on which the Board of Selectmen must vote and pass on to the Board of Finance by next week.

Llodra said she sees the additional safety issues as a stand-alone proposal that will need to be forwarded to the Board of Finance for consideration as they review both the school and town budget proposals.

The Legislative Council will also review the budgets before they are forwarded to the taxpayers for a vote in April.

A charter change in November requires the town and school budgets -- the Board of Education is currently reviewing a proposal for a 6.5 percent increase in spending -- be voted on separately, each independent of the other.

How any upgraded safety requests following the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy are incorporated into the town and school budgets remains to be determined, officials said.

"We don't know what the requests are going to be," Llodra said. "School safety and security deserves a full conversation. My communication (with the committee members) is let's get it done with a full proposal that is ready to go.''

On Monday night, Llodra told her two fellow selectmen that all town departments worked valiantly to keep their budgets to the minimum or flat.

Most of the increases are related to contractual increases or work that must be done, she said. The proposed budget amount is $38.5 million.

Drainage and road repairs may not be glamorous, but they are a necessity, Llodra and other Newtown officials said.

"The demand on repair over the past few years has been at an all-time high, but our funding has not kept pace with this demand,'' she said.

The selectmen expect to finish their deliberations Monday.

Resident David Freedman complimented Llodra for keeping the budget "as flat as you can."

He said he can accept certain increases as being well needed, and said Llodra deserves a "pat on the back" for achieving what he hopes his fellow taxpayers will considered "well deserved."

Resident Ed Shanley said he doesn't believe there is any place in this budget to cut back.